April 22, 2004
Query
Who was the first man, or woman, who volunteered for laser eye surgery? And did they do it in a laboratory full of cages of blind, grey-orbed macaques, fumbling for their banana remnants?
Whoever they were, that took some courage. "I shall take ze laser beam, and slice ze eyeballs right down ze middles..."
I would have only been able to picture James Bond strapped to that table, with that laser beam cutting inexorably towards his raison d'etre (aside: in an amusing bit of irony, raison d'etre is not only French for penis, it is also Velocinese for penis).
Anyway, I understand they originally experimented on elderly coolies years ago, but it was only until the 1980's that they perfected the procedure.
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